College is usually worth it but needs a reboot for this to really be true now. Useless and wasteful bureaucracy is responsible for much of the increased expens

College is usually worth it but needs a reboot for this to really be true now. Useless and wasteful bureaucracy is responsible for much of the increased expense. Why should students be saddled with years (or decades) of debt to pay for pension seeking, position protecting goof offs to waste time and resources? That makes no sense at all. Plus the "education" seems to have deviated somewhat into political indoctrination to the point some students come out confusing the two. That doesn't help. So ya, if colleges would get back to the basics of a sane mandate and operate efficiently it would be fantastic. "Free" college doesn't help because on the current trajectory, the parasitism will expand to slurp up an infinite amount of provided resources, and indoctrination will continue to grow at the expense of education. I'm not a fan of bootcamps in general, but something along those lines, a group of people fed up with the nonsense and starting over seems could possibly produce credentials that actually had worth other than being a (largely social) signal. And presumably outside the current system these would have to be affordable.